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Today I harvested the cones off the hop plants in my yard. They might not have been perfectly ripe, but we have some cold nights coming up and I didn’t want to risk them getting destroyed by frost. They were … Continue reading →

Last summer, me and a couple of colleagues visited the 23rd National Championship in Sahti brewing, which was organized in northern Espoo. The purpose of our visit was not to compete or just drink Sahti, but rather we were there … Continue reading →

On Sunday I had the chance to brew beer together with my colleague J at his homebrewery. He has some really cool ‘homemade’ equipment, which allows him to brew up to approximately 140-liter batches of beer. He has been brewing … Continue reading →

Note, this is a repost of an article I wrote for VTT’s Industrial Biotechnology Blog. Lager beers – sometimes crisp & light pilsners, sometimes dark & malty doppelbocks, have a common denominator: They are all produced using the lager yeast … Continue reading →

For my PhD thesis, I’ve been researching the flavour- and stress-related properties of brewing yeast hybrids. It has been known for some time that lager yeast (Saccharomyces pastorianus) is actually a hybrid species, and that one parent was the well-known … Continue reading →

A couple of days ago, Omega Yeast Labs posted an update on their facebook page, where they stated that they’ve done 5.5S rDNA sequencing on White Labs’ WLP644 Brettanomyces bruxellensis trois strain, and results showed that it was actually a … Continue reading →

Here is the short report I promised to write of my visit to Rodenbach Brewery in the end of October (as a part of the YSS2014 conference). I took notes on my phone, so I have to apologize that a) … Continue reading →

I was in Gent during the week attending the 4th Young Scientists Symposium on Malting, Brewing & Distilling, and I had some great fun. There were lots of interesting lectures and I met lots of interesting people. I’ll post some … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago, my first-year hop plants finally started producing cones, and today they were looking like this: We were hit by some really cold weather (temperature dropped to 0C the previous night), so the cones might not … Continue reading →

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